The office building housing Red Hat's Toronto office has been undergoing a minor renovation to the internal fire warning systems. Basically a whole new electrical side (switches, bells, conduits, panels) has been installed over the last two months.

It looks pretty sweet - sturdy conductors enclosed in sturdier conduits, obviously designed to operate even with a fire raging nearby. However, one little installation quirk caught my eye. This is an unretouched photograph of the top of a wall in the basement. The sprinkler head and the electrical junction box behind the bell are about one foot apart. The electrical box is not sealed or waterproof (I saw it before the bell was mounted). Er ... will the sprinkler avoid bathing its live electrical circuit neighbour out of sheer politeness?